>From the beginning of January 1999, the UK Office for Library and >Information Networking (UKOLN) plays host to the new post of >Interoperability Focus. > >This post is jointly funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee >(JISC) of the UK Higher Education Funding Councils and the British >Library's Research and Innovation Centre (BLRIC). > >Interoperability Focus will serve to channel knowledge and expertise >related to the effective sharing of information, data, and process between >a wide range of data providers and Gateways from sectors as diverse as >libraries, museums and archives. > >As such, Interoperability Focus is concerned with standards developments >such as Dublin Core and Z39.50, as well as with procedural, structural and >semantic issues related to the manner in which data might most usefully be >made available in order to ensure widespread accessibility. >
